the fine pencil work, small hair brushes are 
used. These can be cleaned, as occasion re¬ 
quires, but the large ones must be seldom 
washed. 
I will close here by saying success to all who 
love painting. Lucie Beach. 
Concluded from last page, present No. 
Nellie was progressing wonderfully in the 
good graces of aunt Nancy; she had churned 
ever so many times, and believed she could make 
cheese, so she wrote to heT mother; and her 
cheeks were as red as any farmer’s daughter’s, 
and her hands as brown as an oak leaf in au¬ 
tumn. “ When was Bhe coming home ?” “ Not 
until all the nuts and apples were gathered,” 
she answered 
Written tor Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
WATER-COLOR PAINTING. 
Seeing ati article in the Rural on Water- 
color painting, written by ft lady who claims no 
merit in the art of painting, I will give my ex¬ 
perience in that, useful and interesting accom¬ 
plishment, for the benefit of said lady and others 
of our rural friends. In painting with water 
colors, there are many things that arc hard to 
accomplish without the aid of an experienced 
teacher, in order to execute a good design. But 
a great deal can be done in this line, by perse¬ 
vering in using judgment, good taste, and train¬ 
ing the eye to correctness of perception. Allow 
me to say, and pardon me in so doing, that it is 
incorrect to draw an outline for paiuting with a 
pencil. The larger flowers, leaves and main 
stems, should be formed with patterns or theo¬ 
rems, for the reason they can be made much 
more perfect in form, and more beautifully 
Written lor Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
THE ZODIACAL LIGHT. 
Tues- 
iiD*. Rural New-Yorker:— Seeing, 
day evening, June 23th, what 1 suppose was the 
“ Zodiacal Light,” I wish for further informa¬ 
tion. In the west two large elongated patches 
of white light, the bases nearly joining: each 
spot was thirty or forty degrees in height (esti¬ 
mated) by eight or tea in breadth. A little later 
a spot, nearly as large, was seen in the east. 
Will your “special,C. D.” favor the readers of 
your paper with an article on the subject. 
Palmer Oates, Batavia, N. Y. 
Remarks.— This phenomenon must be as old 
as the constitution of the heavenly bodies “ for 
signs, and for seasons, and for days and years.” 
The definite account of it, however, does not 
extend two centuries into the past. It is a faint 
triangular form of light with the vertex a little 
rounded, lying in the zodiac, and of course on 
both sides of the ecliptic, not so bright as the 
light of the Milky Way. It is most distinct in 
March, after sunset, from 7 to 9 o’clock, lying 
She could not bear to think of 
the hot city, with its filth, and sin, and shame; 
its flaunting misery and gilded vice. She 
thought she could never be contented to stay 
there again, since she had learned how pure and 
uncorrupted the country was. 
11 October with her hail aflame, 
Fleshed brow and pitrpiu finger tips, 
Aero-s the southern orchards came, 
And touched the apples with her lips.” 
The October moon was at its full, shining as 
only an October moon can shine — to-morrow 
her father would be there t Nellie went out and 
sat under the elm in the meadow to have a good 
cry — she heard a firm tread on the short grass, 
and looking up saw Paul Clifford coming — “just 
to plague her,’ 1 she said, pettishly, to herself. 
He came straight on and sat down without in¬ 
vitation, close beside her. 
“ What, crying, Nellie?— sorry to go back to 
the city and leave this dull farm ? 
“ Yes,” was all she could find voice to say. 
“Don’t cry anymore, please, but listen to me, 
I have something to say to you.” He had never 
spoken to her in that tone before—she could not 
imagine what was coming. “ You have some¬ 
thing to tell me, did you say, Mr. Clifford ? ” 
“Yes,” —he swallowed a big lump in his 
throat —“Nellie, I love you." She started a3 
If he had struck her, and looked at him,— 
“ What did you say ? ” 
“I said Nellie, I love you; and I have come 
to ask you to love me in return, and by-and-by, 
when I have made myself worthy of such a 
blessing, will you be my wife ? ” 
“ You cannot mean it, Mr. Clifford; you ean- 
not care for a fooiish little thing like me.” 
“But I know best about that; I should not 
have told you so if it had not been true, — will 
you tell me the truth now; do you love me?” 
Somehow the heavy feeling that had laid at 
The Falls of tiik Passaic, represented 
above, occur in the town of Paterson, New 
Jersey, sixteen miles from New York, on the 
route of the Erie Railway. This bold passage 
on the Pas-aic, though it has of late years lost 
much or its ancient beauty, is still a scene of 
great attraction, particularly when the stream 
chances to be generously swollen, as alter heavy 
rains. At Paterson tne river is aooui, aiA-ujr icev. 
wide and has a fall of 7'2 feet—50 feet perpen¬ 
dicular—and affords an immense water-power. 
These falls are much visited by tourists. Pat¬ 
erson itself Is an agreeable town, of very con¬ 
siderable importance,—having a population oi 
some twenty thousand, and being extensivelj 
ing man might smile upon the tomb of a mortal 
foe. Your humble servant assisted as pall¬ 
bearer. Several drums were heard, and several 
funeral notes—bugle notes, halting a battery 
that was going into position hard by. Several 
soldiers discharged their rebel shots toward 
the grave where the “ varmints” were buried. 
We buried them brightly at bight of noon, 
the sod with a shovel turning, and then sat 
down to a merry dinner. W^e thought, 3S we 
narrowed their lowly beds and scooped out the 
dirty hole, that the ioe and the stranger would 
tread over their heads—and perhaps get blown 
sky-high. 
A Correspondent Seeking News. 
Yesterday (Sunday) a correspondent, said 
to belong to a Western paper, (and I believe 
truly, because none but a Western correspon¬ 
dent would have the cheek to act as he did.) in 
search of something reliable regarding affairs 
on the Rapidan, boldly invaded the White 
House, and sending for Mr. Lincoln just as he 
was going to sit down to dinner, asked him if should not hang myself nor jump into the lake; 
he had anything authentic from Gen. Grant. It tor there is much to be sought after and won 
was a very hot day. and the hottest hour in the in a true life outside of love; but Nellie, the 
dav, but “Old Abe” took it cooiy. Sticking rough highway which my feet must tread will 
his tomnie In one of “ Ills lantern jaws,” as seem rougher, the clouds denser, and the light 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
SKELETONS OF BIRDS. ANIMALS, &c. 
the Rural, I send the following:—Put any sub¬ 
ject. such as a mouse or frog. (If a bird, strip it 
of its feathers,) into a box perforated with a 
number of holes. Let it be properly distended, 
to prevent the parts from collapsing, ur being 
crushed together by the pressure of the earth. 
Then place the box with its contents in an ant 
hole, and In a few days it will become an ex¬ 
quisitely beautiful and perfect skeleton. The 
ants will have consumed every part of it except 
the bones and ligaments. The tadpole acts the 
same part with fish that ants do with birds. 
To produce this, it is hut necessary to suspend 
the fish by threads attached to the head and toil, 
in a horizontal position in a jar of water, such 
as is fouud in a pond, and change it often, till the 
tadpoles have finished their work. T wo or three 
tadpoles will perfectly dissect a fish in twenty- 
four hours. G. W. Cook. 
Pavilion, Mich., ISM. 
paper, and so on until xncy rouHiwmi. 
Then with the best drawing paper you can pro¬ 
cure, (as this is essential to painting with good 
effect.) lay the pattern on the drawing paper, in 
the proper place to bring the flower in the de¬ 
sired spot. Proceed in this way until the flower 
is formed, taking great pains to shade the leaves 
delicately and in the right way, — to represent 
them turning in a natural and graceful way. 
All this will seem easy after a little practice, 
and will seem pleasant instead of an irksome 
task. When the main flowers and green leaves 
are painted — each in Us proper place — take a 
pencil and sketch lines where the stems and 
branches should be, carefully watching each 
turn, or curve, between the leaves and flowers, 
that they may not assume a stiff and unnatural 
appearance. This belng done, the work may be 
completed thus far, with a pencil brush, which 
should vary in size according to size of stems, 
leaves, foliage, &c. Stems of size enough to 
admit, should be “worked up” (as painters say) 
Talk in the Hospital 
Passing from one of the wards, I met a 
strange face above a well known jacket, the 
Zouave jacket of the E Lis worth Avengers, the 
Forty-fourth New York. The man is wounded 
in the face, has lost some of his lingers, and 
one hand is swollen to twice its natural size. 
His face lights with recognition as he says: 
“Youare— -’ssister?” “Yes.” “-isall 
right. I left him in line of battle. Alter I 
was wounded the second time, I crawled back 
to try .-rad find my knapsack. All I wanted 
from it was the picture of my wife and child. 
I could not bear to lose it, but I could not find 
it. Then I looked for-There he was, 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
BIBLICAL ENIGMA 
I am composed of 30 letters. 
My 2, 8, 9,18, 25, U was a Prophet 
My 25, 12, 28,12, SS was King of Damascus 
Mv 18,12.10,1 was appointed King by command of 
God. 
My 30,1. 89 was a high Priest. 
Jly 11, 25,16, 21 delivered the Moabites from slavery. 
My 7, 6, 25, 5,98, 2 , 8 ruled over the Israelites 40 years. 
My 21 , 3, ‘A 4,19, 24 was appointed King by the Per¬ 
sians. 
My 25,11, 4,18, 21 was a King and Tetxarch. 
My 21.12,10, 23, 21 was King of J ndah. 
My 20,14, 4,19,24 was a city destroyed by the King of 
Babylon. 
My 6 , 25,30, 6 , 17, 30, 25, 10, 30 is wha; the Apostles are 
called. 
My 21, 23,13, 25,15, 3 was the son of Seir. 
My 27, 4,11, 5 was the son of Jerabmeei. 
My 22, 23,10, 2, 24 was waat David had 
M> whole is what we should all do. 
Eagh, N. Y.. 1864. Exo E. Mabchant. 
O'* Answer in two weeks. 
For Moire's Rural New-Yorker. 
hN ANAGRAM 
him to surrender:—“Surrender!” he shouted, 
« you little d-d son of a-1 ” The words 
were hardly out of the rebel’s mouth, v> ben 
Jobnuy brougut his piece to “order arms,” 
ami as his hand slipped down to the hammer, 
he crossed it back, swung up the gun to the 
position of “ charge bayonet,” and as the officer I 
raised his sabre to strike the piece aside, the 
glancing barrel lifted into range, and the proud 
Colonel tumbled dead from his horse, his lips 
fresh stained with the syllable of vile reproach 
ho had flung upon a mother’s grave in the hear¬ 
ing of her child I 
A few swift moments ticked oil by musket 
shots, and the tiny gunner was swept up at a 
rebel swoop and borne away a prisoner. Sol¬ 
diers bigger but not better, were token with 
him, only to be washed back again by a surge 
of Federal troopers, ami the prisoner of thirty 
of ours,” 
come necessary that \> arrui suouiu stitch his To bet danl boudey 
decimated corps over a long live and hold > a t all Ofr teh veahnes rogw 
hazards, over 40 solid shot and unexpi-ied Dan hte almsp gnat 
shells were picked up within a radius of ao Nad uor dtos rea htc< 
vards extended from a certain >ak tree. Bt R ° l cr ew no ° ayu 
neath that tree Warren had his headquarters Naples, 1864. 
during two field days, because that particular KT* Answer in two weeks 
locality commanded the best view of the battle 
line, and was easiest of access to division and 
brigade commanders. 
When I saw them they were piled up, and j 
two men were making an excavation close by— | 
a little too short for a grave, a little too square- 
cut for a rifle pit. 
It proved, on inquiry, that arrangements were 
making for decent and sale interment of the in¬ 
nocent-look ing but ugly-meant and ugly-mean¬ 
ing things. They w ere token up tenderly and 
handled w ith care, not because they were fash¬ 
ioned so slenderly, though some were eight 
inches in length by two and a half in diameter, 
nor because they were young and fair, for noth¬ 
ing was known as to their age, and they were 
not fair, but because they were percussion shells, 
and might resent harsh treatment. Altogether, 
it was a jolly funeral. Gen. Warren looked 
requires but little. Then with dry hands take , 
a cake of paint in youv fingers, rubbing it hwd 
enough to mix the paint sufficiently for use. 
This, in the use of green paint, should he of the 
consistency or cream; most of other colors it 
requires less and should lie a little thinner. A 
good deal of foliage causes the variegated colors 
to show to better advantage. Fink and blue 
make a purple. Prussian blue and yellow make 
a green. When desired to use dark green, add 
more blue, and the reverse for light green. 
Gamboge makes a bright grecu. Chrome yel¬ 
low is for a lighter shade. Raw Sienna and- 
burnt Sienna are used for trunks of trees, h ot 
rose color use Carmine. For darker shades of red 
use Lake, lu purchasing paints, do uot select a 
cheap box; they do uot contain a great variety 
of colors, and the paints arc of an Inferior 
* quality. They are spurious. When paints are 
dissolved in water, if they are good they will 
u mix in smooth, if poor, it will be in little 
f specks —curdles, or rather, it separates from 
■: the water. When shaded on paper it appears 
s 7 in a muddy form. 
Theorem painting requires about teu or a 
& dozen large or stiff brushes, varying much in 
R size. They are made of bristles. For doing 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
CHARADE. 
1 vore a circle let appear 
twenty-five and five in rear; 
0rM - fth or eight subjoin, and then, 
Yon -mickly find what conquers man. 
Floral Hill, q 0) jsqi, Chaj 
t3T Answer v.^, w0e i C9 . 
One of the ttwhrn* to %» School Ship Massa¬ 
chusetts, who was quite suk, was visited by a 
kind lady. The little fellow was suffering se¬ 
verely, and his visitor asked hits, if she could do 
anything for him. “Yes.” repliM the patient, 
“read to me.” “ Will you have a story 1” asked 
the lady. “ No,” answered the boy, “read the 
Bible; read about Lazarus;” and the lady com¬ 
plied. The next day the visit was repeated, 
and again the boy asked the lady to read to him. 
“Shall I read from the Bible?” “Oh, no!” 
was the reply—“I’m better to-day; read me a 
love story ! ,r 
minutes was again 
and Gen. Rosecraus made him a Sergeant, 
and the stripes of rank covered him all over 
like a mouse iu a harness, and the daughter of 
Mr. Secretary Chase presented him a silver 
medal appropriately inscribed, which he wor¬ 
thily wears, a royal order of houor, upon his 
left breast, and all men conspire to spoil him, 
but, since few ladles can get at him here, per¬ 
haps he may he saved. 
But what about last night? Well, like Flora 
ANSWERS TO vtq mas , Ac,, IN No. 763, 
Answer to Misceil^^ Enigma: — nonor thy 
father and thy mother in^ days of yout h. 
Answer to Anagram: 
One bright star i n . er g h i nm£ , 
In the fair or ch» le88 8ky> 
And that star knot n0 declining; 
Hope’s bright stat pj never die. 
Answer to Problem135 lbs 
